Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Real Estate, Metals and Consumer Durables sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 0.86%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index added 0.75%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Cipla Ltd. (NS:CIPL), which rose 5.29% or 28.65 points to trade at 570.05 at the close. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) added 4.84% or 21.80 points to end at 471.80 and Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS) was up 4.52% or 47.90 points to 1108.65 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bosch Ltd (NS:BOSH), which lost 2.14% or 485.10 points to trade at 22138.10 in late trade. Bharti Airtel Ltd. (NS:BRTI) declined 1.45% or 6.00 points to end at 408.55 and HCL Technologies Ltd (NS:HCLT) shed 1.18% or 10.30 points to 860.10.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Cipla Ltd. (BO:CIPL) which rose 5.03% to 570.00, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was up 4.70% to settle at 472.50 and Tata Steel Ltd (BO:TISC) which gained 4.21% to close at 621.25.
The worst performers were Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which was down 1.00% to 2469.15 in late trade, Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which lost 0.98% to settle at 410.60 and State Bank Of India (BO:SBI) which was down 0.93% to 278.05 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1252 to 302 and 8 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1826 rose and 698 declined, while 122 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 5.35% to 14.3825.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.58% or 7.54 to $1286.46 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.68% or 0.33 to hit $48.49 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.79% or 0.41 to trade at $51.69 a barrel.
USD/INR was up 0.02% to 64.100, while EUR/INR fell 0.25% to 75.6392.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.27% at 93.24.